barseghyan h 177_final
TRANSCRIPT
Title Page
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
Blog 1 bull My name is Hayk Barseghyan and I am a fourth year
Physiological Science Major Since childhood I was terrible at anything that had to do with art My drawings were the worst in the class and literature did not interest me at all So I turned all my attention and effort into sciences and here I am today I have lived for about two decades now and have no idea what art is and how to understand it I realize that there is something more to this world than precise answers Thus I decided to enroll in this class to learn about the art from a point of view of sciences that I am familiar with
bull The two cultures art and biotechnology are very distinctive areas of study but that is only the first thought Most of the art that is has been produced in the world has been a pure copy of the nature which is biology The art has been repeating itself for many generations The newer field of biotechnology brings newer areas where art could be created from biological and technological point There is stereotype that art and science are two distinct areas and many universities concentrate more on the sciences leaving art to wonder around Let us not forget that there is integration and interaction in almost every field of study biology and art are not an exception Many biological technologies have been created to suit not only the purpose but also the looks
There countless examples of art integrating with science and vice versa However the one that really caught my attention was the creation and modernization of total mechanical hearts incorporated into living human beings for survival
Bibliography bull ARTIFICIAL HEART June 24 2009 bull httprwjmsumdnjedunews_publicationsnews_releaseAbioCor
_Hearthtml bull The Total Artificial Heart bull httpwwwpolyurethanesorgblog201111the-total-artificial-
heart bull Ducati Design Contest bull httpwwwmotorcycledailycom20040621june04ducati bull Art and Biotechnology When Art looks into Science bull httptherestisartwordpresscom20101026art-and-
biotechnology-when- bull The Role of Biotechnology in Art Preservation bull httpwwwsciencedirectcomsciencearticlepiiS0167779905002
726
Blog 2 bull I have always wondered if it would be possible to produce
enough food for the whole world without genetic modification First of all I think that there would not be these many people in the world without the ability of humanity to produce more food So maybe the development and progress of genetic modification of products stimulated population growth as a result of excess food People would think that genetically modified food should not pose any danger to humans but all it takes is one successful mutation of a virus and many people could die or become ill because of consumption of those foods There could also be partial integration of those unusual genes into human genome over time of excessive genetically modified food consumption Not much proof is provided by scientist to support either side of the argument
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 1 bull My name is Hayk Barseghyan and I am a fourth year
Physiological Science Major Since childhood I was terrible at anything that had to do with art My drawings were the worst in the class and literature did not interest me at all So I turned all my attention and effort into sciences and here I am today I have lived for about two decades now and have no idea what art is and how to understand it I realize that there is something more to this world than precise answers Thus I decided to enroll in this class to learn about the art from a point of view of sciences that I am familiar with
bull The two cultures art and biotechnology are very distinctive areas of study but that is only the first thought Most of the art that is has been produced in the world has been a pure copy of the nature which is biology The art has been repeating itself for many generations The newer field of biotechnology brings newer areas where art could be created from biological and technological point There is stereotype that art and science are two distinct areas and many universities concentrate more on the sciences leaving art to wonder around Let us not forget that there is integration and interaction in almost every field of study biology and art are not an exception Many biological technologies have been created to suit not only the purpose but also the looks
There countless examples of art integrating with science and vice versa However the one that really caught my attention was the creation and modernization of total mechanical hearts incorporated into living human beings for survival
Bibliography bull ARTIFICIAL HEART June 24 2009 bull httprwjmsumdnjedunews_publicationsnews_releaseAbioCor
_Hearthtml bull The Total Artificial Heart bull httpwwwpolyurethanesorgblog201111the-total-artificial-
heart bull Ducati Design Contest bull httpwwwmotorcycledailycom20040621june04ducati bull Art and Biotechnology When Art looks into Science bull httptherestisartwordpresscom20101026art-and-
biotechnology-when- bull The Role of Biotechnology in Art Preservation bull httpwwwsciencedirectcomsciencearticlepiiS0167779905002
726
Blog 2 bull I have always wondered if it would be possible to produce
enough food for the whole world without genetic modification First of all I think that there would not be these many people in the world without the ability of humanity to produce more food So maybe the development and progress of genetic modification of products stimulated population growth as a result of excess food People would think that genetically modified food should not pose any danger to humans but all it takes is one successful mutation of a virus and many people could die or become ill because of consumption of those foods There could also be partial integration of those unusual genes into human genome over time of excessive genetically modified food consumption Not much proof is provided by scientist to support either side of the argument
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull The two cultures art and biotechnology are very distinctive areas of study but that is only the first thought Most of the art that is has been produced in the world has been a pure copy of the nature which is biology The art has been repeating itself for many generations The newer field of biotechnology brings newer areas where art could be created from biological and technological point There is stereotype that art and science are two distinct areas and many universities concentrate more on the sciences leaving art to wonder around Let us not forget that there is integration and interaction in almost every field of study biology and art are not an exception Many biological technologies have been created to suit not only the purpose but also the looks
There countless examples of art integrating with science and vice versa However the one that really caught my attention was the creation and modernization of total mechanical hearts incorporated into living human beings for survival
Bibliography bull ARTIFICIAL HEART June 24 2009 bull httprwjmsumdnjedunews_publicationsnews_releaseAbioCor
_Hearthtml bull The Total Artificial Heart bull httpwwwpolyurethanesorgblog201111the-total-artificial-
heart bull Ducati Design Contest bull httpwwwmotorcycledailycom20040621june04ducati bull Art and Biotechnology When Art looks into Science bull httptherestisartwordpresscom20101026art-and-
biotechnology-when- bull The Role of Biotechnology in Art Preservation bull httpwwwsciencedirectcomsciencearticlepiiS0167779905002
726
Blog 2 bull I have always wondered if it would be possible to produce
enough food for the whole world without genetic modification First of all I think that there would not be these many people in the world without the ability of humanity to produce more food So maybe the development and progress of genetic modification of products stimulated population growth as a result of excess food People would think that genetically modified food should not pose any danger to humans but all it takes is one successful mutation of a virus and many people could die or become ill because of consumption of those foods There could also be partial integration of those unusual genes into human genome over time of excessive genetically modified food consumption Not much proof is provided by scientist to support either side of the argument
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
There countless examples of art integrating with science and vice versa However the one that really caught my attention was the creation and modernization of total mechanical hearts incorporated into living human beings for survival
Bibliography bull ARTIFICIAL HEART June 24 2009 bull httprwjmsumdnjedunews_publicationsnews_releaseAbioCor
_Hearthtml bull The Total Artificial Heart bull httpwwwpolyurethanesorgblog201111the-total-artificial-
heart bull Ducati Design Contest bull httpwwwmotorcycledailycom20040621june04ducati bull Art and Biotechnology When Art looks into Science bull httptherestisartwordpresscom20101026art-and-
biotechnology-when- bull The Role of Biotechnology in Art Preservation bull httpwwwsciencedirectcomsciencearticlepiiS0167779905002
726
Blog 2 bull I have always wondered if it would be possible to produce
enough food for the whole world without genetic modification First of all I think that there would not be these many people in the world without the ability of humanity to produce more food So maybe the development and progress of genetic modification of products stimulated population growth as a result of excess food People would think that genetically modified food should not pose any danger to humans but all it takes is one successful mutation of a virus and many people could die or become ill because of consumption of those foods There could also be partial integration of those unusual genes into human genome over time of excessive genetically modified food consumption Not much proof is provided by scientist to support either side of the argument
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography bull ARTIFICIAL HEART June 24 2009 bull httprwjmsumdnjedunews_publicationsnews_releaseAbioCor
_Hearthtml bull The Total Artificial Heart bull httpwwwpolyurethanesorgblog201111the-total-artificial-
heart bull Ducati Design Contest bull httpwwwmotorcycledailycom20040621june04ducati bull Art and Biotechnology When Art looks into Science bull httptherestisartwordpresscom20101026art-and-
biotechnology-when- bull The Role of Biotechnology in Art Preservation bull httpwwwsciencedirectcomsciencearticlepiiS0167779905002
726
Blog 2 bull I have always wondered if it would be possible to produce
enough food for the whole world without genetic modification First of all I think that there would not be these many people in the world without the ability of humanity to produce more food So maybe the development and progress of genetic modification of products stimulated population growth as a result of excess food People would think that genetically modified food should not pose any danger to humans but all it takes is one successful mutation of a virus and many people could die or become ill because of consumption of those foods There could also be partial integration of those unusual genes into human genome over time of excessive genetically modified food consumption Not much proof is provided by scientist to support either side of the argument
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 2 bull I have always wondered if it would be possible to produce
enough food for the whole world without genetic modification First of all I think that there would not be these many people in the world without the ability of humanity to produce more food So maybe the development and progress of genetic modification of products stimulated population growth as a result of excess food People would think that genetically modified food should not pose any danger to humans but all it takes is one successful mutation of a virus and many people could die or become ill because of consumption of those foods There could also be partial integration of those unusual genes into human genome over time of excessive genetically modified food consumption Not much proof is provided by scientist to support either side of the argument
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Cows being raised in a farm
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull My family comes from a background where meat consumption is one of the main sources of daily meal I am used to eating meat regularly but I have never thought there could be more harm from it than good Fifty years ago when people grew their own food it was safe to eat whatever they grew because it was grown on natural products Today big farms make cattle to eat corn which is not what animals are supposed to eat this result in a higher levels of fats in the animal which human consume that potentially leads to cardiovascular diseases And this is one side effect that we are aware of The meat that I and my family have been consuming for the last several years came from those farms
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Organically raised organic cow
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull I am now inclined to control whatever I eat and try to consume natural organically raised products because I do not know what long term consumption of genetically modified foods could lead but certainly know that organic food will not lead to anything bad because it has been consumed by people for thousands of years
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull Industrial farm
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography bull What Are the Dangersrdquo Mothers for Natural Law Web 6 Nov
2009 bull Moeller Lorena and Kan Wang ldquoEngineering with Precision Tools
for the New Generation of Transgenic Cropsrdquo BioScience 585 (2008) 391+ Expanded Academic ASAP Web 10 Nov 2009
bull Union of Concerned Scientists ldquoThe Safeness of Genetically Modified Foods Is Unprovenrdquo Opposing Viewpoints Genetic Engineering (2009) Web 1 Nov 2009
bull ldquo20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foodsrdquo World Health Organization Food Safety Web 31 October 2009
bull Genetically Modified Foods Harmful or Helpful Deborah B Whitman Apr 2000
bull httpwwwcsacomdiscoveryguidesgmfoodoverviewphp
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 3 bull Genetic Engineering has been used throughout human history to
select phenotypes or genes that are most favorable I think that there is nothing wrong with that Just as humans in the past have been able to domesticate and grow some wild type plants and animals through long period of time today humans are able to do such selections in a shorter period of time due to advances in technology Some might think that it could bring some bad consequences but that statement has not been proven We can think of Genetic Engineering the same way as Natural Selection that Darwin explained in his book ldquoOrigins of Speciesrdquo Natural Selection selects the most desirable genes for the future generation and Genetic Engineering works the same way The only difference is that it is done primarily by humans and not nature
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull I will be honest I do not really like seeing animals in the zoos or as pets I think every animal deserves to live in the wild just like any one of us would never want to be imprisoned There are exceptions though Some animals require human care and in those situations it is fine to live by symbiosis There are many cases in the world when humans torture their pets and then kill them fun I think that some of these people should be imprisoned or fined but many would disagree because industrial farms kill millions of animals and to provide human population with food
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull I enjoyed watching ldquoStrange Culturerdquo that showed the work of Kurtz and how FBI was mislead to convict him for killing his wife It is quite understandable because there are so many cases in which one of the partners kills another for any reason that it is almost an instinct in police organizations to suspect husband or wife first and then go from there looking for evidence Of course it was pitiful to watch how onersquos life career and work could be destroyed in such a short period of time but I am very proud of Kurtz because he fought till the end for his rights Not many people have the strength to do that
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography
bull Genetic Engeneering bull httpsaraalgoehubpagescomhubGenetic-
Engineering bull httponlinesfsuedu~roneGEessaysgedangerhtm bull httpwwwucsusaorgfood_and_agriculturescience_
and_impactssciencew bull Animal Abuse bull httpwwwpet-abusecompagesanimal_crueltyphp bull httpwwwdosomethingorgtipsandtools11-facts-
about-animal-cruelty
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 4 bull Noarsquos exhibition was very interesting and memorable
It caught my attention because I never actually thought of things in that manner nor did I ever imagine looking at dust of pollen particles under microscope trying to figure out their three dimensional structure What Noa did was absolutely fascinating to me and probably to most people that encountered her work After seeing her presentation I canrsquot stop myself thinking about the smallest particles that make up different things Itrsquos like I want to know how everything looks under the microscope I was one of the fortunate people that attended Noarsquos exhibition There I was able to apply everything she referred to in her presentation to the actual bodies of work that were presented on exhibition
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull Noarsquos work also showed that everything in our world is interconnected to each other in some degree These interactions make possible the life as we know to exist on Earth Humans should try to preserve these interactions in order to conserve the biological balance that exists Even destroying one little part of a chain will cause it to break overtime
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull There are many examples of medical technology and art used hand in hand The most fascinating to be is the three dimensional structure of proteins in human bodies There is countless number of art works designed by humans throughout the world but our organism still is a leader in that area Most of the human body is made up of proteins and there have to millions of different shapes of them in order to perform one particular function be it protection by immune system or structural building blocks of organism All these proteins coexist in balance and interact with each other to create an organism such as us
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Architecture around the world
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Protein structure
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography
bull httpwwwhistoryofinformationcomindexphpcategory=Art+and+Science2C+Medicine2C+Technology
bull httptkcollierwordpresscom20101017everyday-things-under-the-electron-microscope
bull httpwwwvivocolostateeduhbooksgeneticsbiotechbasicsprostructhtml
bull httpwwweurekalertorgfeaturesdoe2004-12ddoe-tao122204php
bull httpmay-klivejournalcom bull httpwwwnoapkaplancom
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 6 bull I thought that Kathy Brewrsquos exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo was
just fascinating I agree with her that in our society there is a fear of aging and specifically having gray hair Many people just do not want to accept the fact that they will get older no matter what they do be plastic surgery cosmetic creams or hair coloring I also think that we should educate the population that it is natural to get older and that people should not fear it Exhibits such as Kathy Brewrsquos ldquoGoing Grayrdquo is very interesting way of conveying the thought of normality to people by showing personal experiences and ways in which we can adapt to aging
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull The interviews that were shown in the documentary shown on exhibit ldquoGoing Grayrdquo several different scientist and doctors were discussing different reasons of hair becoming gray The truth is that it depends on an individual There could be many reasons for a person to go gray such as nutritional imbalance aging genetic inheritance environmental stress immune malfunction loss of protein complexes that are responsible for hair color All these can cause hair graying The important thing is that people need to understand that it is natural and not fear it
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull However when people do go grey they might not like the way they look There is no fear of aging it is simply cosmetic dislike In such case I think it is explainable for a person to try to change the way he or she looks by any means necessary if that would bring personal satisfaction and will not harm the overall health of the person One Chinese ldquoHe Shou Wurdquo helps to retain hair color naturally but this does not mean that using hair coloring reagents or other things is wrong
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography
bull httpartsciuclaeduq=eventsgenetics-aging-symposium-going-gray-kathy-brew-exhibition-opening
bull httpwwwhumantouchofchemistrycomwhy-does-hair-turn-greyhtm
bull httphairstylerandremovalcomhe-shou-wu-the-powerful-chinese-herb-for-treating-hair-loss
bull httpwwwlhjcomstylehairadvicehow-to-love-your-gray-hair
bull httpwwwbeliefnetcomHealth200605Fear-Of-Aging-How-To-Get-Over-Itaspx
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
bull Lejla Kucukalicrsquos lecture on Biotech and Biopunk was fascinating to me I had never thought that science fiction and genetics could be interconnected with each other to produce such great ideas and inventions that were presented in the lecture Professor Kucukalic talked a little about the Mary Shelleyrsquos Frankenstein (1818) who was created in the laboratory to imitate a human being
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
bull I think the combination of biotechnology and genetics is the future of humanity However in comparison with Frankenstein I think that a better way of building or modifying a person would be by taking the best of many and combining them in one This way it would be possible to save years of research spent on building a person from scratch meaning that the genome would be human engineered A better way is to take already present genes and incorporate them into one single genome that will produce an ultimate man Faster stronger and more intelligent
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography
bull httpmarvelcomcharactersbio1009726x-men
bull httpsocgenuclaedueventsevent_id=85 bull httpfictionencyclopediawikiacomwikiVict
or_Frankenstein bull httphayesaplitblogspotcom2011_04_01_
archivehtml bull httpwwwfanpopcomspotsx-
menimages58082titlex-men-wallpaper
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
Human brain has the ability to store and transmit memories using images There is specialized area in the brain called Hippocampus that is involved in storage and generation of memories The way memories are sored is still not quite understood However it is speculated that visual or any other stimuli that a person perceives is accompanied by production of proteins in the brain that are involved in generation of new neuronal connections in the brain
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
It is possible to design a gene by genetic engineering and insert it into human cell using ballistics A special air pressurized gun will shoot millions of copies of desired gene into cells some of which will become incorporated into cells genome The inserted recombinant DNA in the cells will be transcribed and translated into a protein which will later be carried out from the cell into the bloodstream and taken into the brain region involved in memory generation and retrieval
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Depending on the design of the gene and its product the person will get different images appear in his imagination starting from known pieces of art to any other custom generated memories This technology will be crucial in using human genetic programming in information storage Retrieval of the information can be performed using any human subject since the mechanism is the same from person to person
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
- Slide Number 16
- Slide Number 17
- Slide Number 18
- Bibliography
- Blog 4
- Slide Number 21
- Slide Number 22
- Slide Number 23
- Slide Number 24
- Slide Number 25
- Bibliography
- Blog 6
- Slide Number 28
- Slide Number 29
- Slide Number 30
- Slide Number 31
- Bibliography
- Blog 7 (Extra Credit)
- Slide Number 34
- Slide Number 35
- Slide Number 36
- Bibliography
- Blog 8 (Memories Stored In DNA)
- Slide Number 39
- Slide Number 40
- Slide Number 41
- Slide Number 42
- Slide Number 43
- Bibliography
- Summary
-
Bibliography
bull httpducknetwebblogspotcom200806how-to-use-gene-gunhtml
bull httpwwwfrontiersinorghuman_neuroscience103389neuro090312009full
bull httpnewswatchnationalgeographiccom20080909neanderthalq=200809neanderthalhtml
bull httpwwwglobalchangecomgeneticenginhtm bull httpsciencehowstuffworkscomenvironmenta
llifehuman-biologyhuman-memoryhtm
Summary
bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
- Title Page
- Blog 1
- Slide Number 3
- Slide Number 4
- Slide Number 5
- Bibliography
- Blog 2
- Slide Number 8
- Slide Number 9
- Slide Number 10
- Slide Number 11
- Slide Number 12
- Bibliography
- Blog 3
- Slide Number 15
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bull Name Hayk Barseghyan bull Major Physiological Science Russian
Language and Literature bull Date June 6 2012 bull Class Honors 177 (UCLA Spring 12) bull Professor Victoria Vesna
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